On May 11, 1858, Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
Nine years later, to the day, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg’s independence and neutrality were affirmed in the Second Treaty of London.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) says that “American public health officials were well aware of COVID-19 vaccine safety signals for myocarditis and ischemic stroke . . . well before they alerted the American public,” summarizes The Epoch Times.
Last year, as chairman of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Johnson issued a subpoena to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeking six categories of COVID-related data, including vaccine safety surveillance data and myocarditis records.
From the subpoenaed data — enormous dumps of what has ultimately become about 11 million pages — Johnson’s team found that the CDC was well aware of the myocarditis risk even in early 2021. Yet they downplayed it instead of alerting the public, Johnson said.
Johnson’s team also found that the White House modified wording about a safety signal for ischemic stroke with the bivalent booster for people over 65, changing “moderately elevated” to “slightly elevated,” according to records
“Sen. Ron Johnson: Here’s What We Found in 11 Million Pages of COVID Records,” The Epoch Times (April 23, 2026).
The risk of myocarditis in young men was known by May 2021, says Senator Johnson.
Specifically referring to the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA therapeutic injections (popularly called “vaccines”), Johnson notes that the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) results quickly signaled the danger. “All of a sudden, in 2021, it just spikes. I didn’t need a proportional reporting ratio analysis. I didn’t need empirical Bayesian analysis to tell me there was something seriously wrong here. I remember publishing my VAERS charts where there were a couple thousand deaths, then more thousand deaths, then 10,000, 20,000. We’re up to about 39,000 deaths.
Early on, there were 46 percent of those deaths occurring on the day of vaccination or within one or two days. Now we’re about 24 percent. Of the 39,000 deaths reported worldwide on VAERS, 24 percent are occurring on the day of vaccination or within one or two days. And they say, well, you know, VAERS doesn’t prove causation. I mean, that’s a heck of a correlation.
Ibid.
Internal communications at the CDC, seen in the data Johnson’s team went through, was a repeated fear: telling the American people that deaths were associated with the jabs the government was promoting and even mandating would “encourage vaccine hesitancy.”
Johnson notes that this vaccine hesitancy has jumped the corral and now extends far beyond COVID to vaccines on the official childhood vaccine schedule.
Science is all about taking a look at the consensus and poking a hole in it and testing it and going, “I’m not quite sure of that.”
Ron Johnson, M.D., in an April 23, 2026, interview in The Epoch Times.
On May 10, 1768, riots broke out in London after John Wilkes was imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III.
“The Pentagon on Friday unsealed the first tranche of what it described as ‘new, never-before-seen’ files related to otherworldly encounters,” reports The Military Times, just a few “months after President Donald Trump directed the government to begin disclosing intelligence related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and unidentified flying objects.
Trump, in a post on Truth Social, characterized the dissemination of the archives as an effort to achieve “complete and maximum transparency.”
“With these new Documents and Videos, the people can decide for themselves, ‘WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?’” the president wrote, adding, “Have Fun and Enjoy!”
The Department of Defense — in coordination with the White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Energy, NASA and the FBI — disclosed 162 files on its newly launched “UFO” website. Additional batches are expected to be released on a rolling basis as they are discovered and declassified.
The website is not on the much-ballyooed, newly registered domains of alien.gov and aliens.gov. It is, as linked above, war.gov/ufo.
There has been much commentary, no little amount of hype, and a sizable amount of frustration: this was a carefully curated conglomeration of arcana. Not a full disclosure of everything some people in the government know. For instance, the FBI was never a leader in accumulating UFO information, but FBI files lead this “tranche.”
Highly recommended, though, are the files from NASA on what astronauts saw in lunar missions Apollo 11, 12, and 17. Check them out.
Paul Jacob has been covering the UFO disclosure movement for several years now. Use the search bar, above, to put keywords “UFO” or “UAP” through the paces. Or just click on the category “government transparency.”
On May 9, 2020, the U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression. This was not caused by the boom and bust cycle, credit inflation followed by deflation, or sunspots. It was caused by the “15 days to flatten the curve” pandemic lockdowns that most states had started in March or April of that year and had continued well past the promised end date.
The constant fluttering around the single flame of vanity is so much the rule and the law that almost nothing is more incomprehensible than how an honest and pure urge for truth could make its appearance among men.
Friedrich W. Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense” (German: 1873; 1896), in The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings (1999), translated by Ronald Speirs.
Back then, Mississippi was ranked 50th in so many categories by which the states were measured against each other that the Magnolia State saved those inhabiting states near the bottom from occupying that un-coveted dead last place.
This was still the case in 2005, when Mississippi ranked 50th in fourth-grade reading scores. In 2013, Mississippi students climbed one rung, to 49th. Then things started to change.
“The transformation began in 2013 with the passage of the Literacy-Based Promotion Act, a controversial law that allows schools to hold back students who cannot read by third grade,” WAPT, Jackson’s ABC-TV affiliate, recently reported.
“The curriculum shifted from balanced literacy to a phonics-forward approach,” WAPT explained, “and the state invested millions into phonics-based instruction, strict accountability measures, and instructional coaches who work inside schools daily.”
Imagine going back to the way generations were taught to read and, lo and behold, it still works!!!
“Results from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress showed Mississippi fourth graders ranked 9th in the nation for reading scores and 16th in the nation for math scores,” the TeachMS website informs. “Since 2013, that same category of students ranks No. 1 nationally for gains in reading and math.”
“Mississippi has skyrocketed on national tests, while blue states lag,” acknowledged a New York Times account earlier this year, adding that “adjusted for poverty and other student demographics, Mississippi is No. 1 for fourth grade reading and math, and at or near the top in eighth grade, according to the Urban Institute, a left-leaning think tank.”
Thank God for Mississippi.
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On May 8, 1919, Australian journalist Edward George Honey (1885–1922) suggested, in a letter to a London newspaper, the idea of setting aside five minutes of silence to commemorate the fallen in the Great War. Using the pen name Warren Foster, Honey hoped to influence the ceremonies then in the planning for the first anniversary of the Armistice that signaled the end of the war on November 11, 1918: the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.”